There may be 20 political parties competing in Cambodia’s general elections Sunday, but for opposition supporters such as Sin Chan Pov Rozeth, there really is no choice at all. Rozeth, a former rising star in local politics who now runs a noodle shop in Battambang province, is preparing to heed...

A bitter election season in Pakistan concluded in bloodshed and fraud allegations Wednesday after a suicide bombing killed at least 31 people outside a polling station and a top contender rejected preliminary results because of “massive irregularities.” Early unofficial returns gave a commanding...

A two-year state of emergency during which thousands were jailed or stripped of their livelihoods was lifted early Thursday, buoying the hopes of some that a time of repression and stifled free speech in Turkey was at an end. Opposition leaders and human rights activists, however, cautioned that...

Standing on the edge of this once busy border crossing, you can glimpse the black, white and red of the Syrian flag across the no man’s land linking Jordan to Syria. Off to one side, a group of soldiers lounge around an entrenched tank, as army trucks kick up dust on a dirt track hugging the border....

A simple two-lane bridge spans the Rio Grande between Ciudad Miguel Aleman, Mexico, and Roma, Texas, sleepy sister cities that have long accommodated a steady flow of traffic back and forth across the border. Regulars still cross daily, but lately they have encountered something new and disturbing....

The recent killings of three humanitarian aid workers in Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram militants have sent shock waves throughout the humanitarian aid community and illuminated the increasingly precarious landscape such personnel must navigate to help people in areas of conflict and instability....

Kenya’s main opposition leader is scheduled to be sworn in as president. Just one problem: The country already has a president. Raila Odinga, leader of the National Super Alliance, a coalition of center-left opposition parties, is preparing for an inauguration Tuesday to install him as a “people’s...

In a gesture inspiring both praise and scorn, Saudi Arabia announced Monday that it would donate $1.5 billion in new humanitarian aid to Yemen, where almost three years of war has devastated the country’s infrastructure, tanked the economy and caused widespread hunger and disease. The money will...

Kept as a slave by Islamic State militants, the mother prayed for her rescue and made a promise to God: If she ever saw her 10 children again, she would fast for three months to demonstrate her gratitude. Her prayers were partially answered. In September, as the militants were being driven from...

Four years after it broke ground and nearly two decades after civil rights veterans began pushing for its establishment, the country’s first state-sponsored civil rights museum will open Saturday in Mississippi at a cost of more than $90 million. But for all the work that went into it and a companion...

When the most prominent African American civil rights group recently issued a nationwide warning against flying on American Airlines, it was a surprising move for an organization known more for slow-moving lawsuits than public confrontation with major corporations. Leaders of the National Assn....

When the deliberations were over, jury members at Rome’s newest film festival were confident they had picked the right winner. “Let’s just say we know an intense story when we see one, because we have lived some pretty intense stories of our own,” said Luigi Zannini. Zannini was one of 20 inmates,...

The need to rebuild hurricane-ravaged Barbuda has reignited a decades-old dispute over who, if anyone, owns the land. Most Barbudans say it belongs to the people under a historical tenure system that has allowed anybody of Barbudan descent to use a plot for free. But in the wake of Hurricane Irma,...

The topic of the radio talk show was love, and the newlyweds sitting side by side behind studio microphones were brimming with it. He had noticed her on Facebook and messaged her several times, finally traveling 125 miles to see her after she agreed to a date. She touched his arm, remembering how...

When a Saudi woman living at home with her parents and siblings asked her brother to fix something in her room a few months ago, he asked what color underwear she was wearing. She found the comment chilling. Her father had already tried to grope her. When she hid in her room, installing a lock...

The nine-month U.S.-backed offensive to expel Islamic State militants from Mosul was a relentless and savage fight. Now that it has been won, another daunting battle has begun: to bring Iraq’s second-largest city back from the dead. Thousands of buildings have been reduced to rubble, more than...